On this day in 1945, spontaneous communist revolution broke out in Saigon, Vietnam in response to French troops occupying various police stations, the Post Office, the Central Bank, and the Town Hall in the city.

Although French soldiers met no resistance initially, news of the occupation set off open rebellion in the working class districts of Saigon - civic buildings were set on fire, revolutionary groups paraded in the street, and guerilla warfare was undertaken against the colonizing forces.

Under the slogan "Land to the Peasants! Factories to the workers!", the International Communist League (ICL) called on the population to arm themselves and organize in councils, establishing a Popular Revolutionary Committee whose delegates issued "a declaration in which they affirmed their independence from the political parties and resolutely condemned any attempt to restrict the autonomy of the decisions taken by workers and peasants".

According to Ngô Văn Xuyế, the Trotskyist character of the uprising was at odds with the Marxist-Leninist Vietminh, however, and the revolutionary movement was caught in the crossfire between French occupiers and the opposition of the Vietminh communists. The movement was successfully suppressed, and its leaders either killed or exiled.